Affiliation:
1. Institute of Chemistry and Molecular Engineering, Agricultural University of Georgia, Kakha Bendukidze University Campus, # 240 David Aghmashenebeli Alley, 0159 Tbilisi, Georgia
Abstract
A series of new aliphatic AB-type polyesters (PEs) and co-polyesters (co-PEs) with 1,2,3-triazole
rings in the backbone were successfully synthesized via Cu(I)-catalyzed click step-growth
polymerization (SGP) following the efficient one pot/two step synthetic strategy. The structure of the
click polymers was confirmed by FT-IR and NMR spectroscopy and the new materials were
characterized in terms of yield, solubility, film-forming properties, molecular weights and molecular
weight distribution by gel permeation chromatography (GPC) and degradation ability by total organic
carbon (TOC) technique. The obtained hydrolytically degradable AB-type polyesters and co-polyesters
with a rather high degree of polymerization, film-forming properties and solubility behaviour increase
a library of available degradable click polymers promising for wide range of biomedical applications
and also confirm the suitability of the present synthetic strategy for designing different types of triazole
main chain degradable click polymers.
Publisher
Asian Journal of Chemistry